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L.A. built car....never say never!! #1265529
07/11/12 01:05 AM
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Well after playing with these cars for 30 years I have never found a build sheet in a Los Angeles built car. So when I got my 1969 340 Dart Swinger and saw that it was a LA built car I was just happy that it is a numbers matching engine and trans with a fender tag. I started cleaning the interior and pulled the back seat out and just as I thought....there was no sheet. Then I pulled out the front seat and HOT DOGS.... there was a build sheet!! It is about 85% there and it is the correct sheet for the car!!

Just goes to show you.....never say never.

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....there is nothing like driving my 1968 Hemi Dart around town and having people looking at you like you're nuts!!
Re: L.A. built car....never say never!! [Re: Troy] #1265530
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Troy I had a 70 dart swinger /6 built in LA , brought here to the east coast , it had 5 sheets in it , 3 were under the carpet, I have to look but I still have them.

Re: L.A. built car....never say never!! [Re: JohnRR] #1265531
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I saw the car's recent progress. It's coming along very nicely. Everything has been gone through between the brakes to air cleaner so far


Re: L.A. built car....never say never!! [Re: Troy] #1265532
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Awesome..


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Re: L.A. built car....never say never!! [Re: Troy] #1265533
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Congrats Troy

Re: L.A. built car....never say never!! [Re: Morty426] #1265534
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My 71 Duster 340 had a mint buildsheet in it! LA car

Re: L.A. built car....never say never!! [Re: fc7freak] #1265535
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My '70 Cuda had a partial above the glove box..............


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Re: L.A. built car....never say never!! [Re: Troy] #1265536
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We found 2 sheets in the 70 Duster we restored. One for the car and one for another car ahead of it in the line. neat stuff.


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Re: L.A. built car....never say never!! [Re: Troy] #1265537
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Re: L.A. built car....never say never!! [Re: DPelletier] #1265538
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The car gods are with me on this on so far. Short story...I bought this car off of a friend of mine and it has been sitting for twenty years. I tried to get it running but rusted out freeze plugs and bad fuel took its toll. I have gone through this car from front to back and she is just about rolling on its tires again....just waiting on the radiator shop for the recored radiator. I started her up last week and she purred like a kitten!!

It's going to make somebody a fun car!!

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....there is nothing like driving my 1968 Hemi Dart around town and having people looking at you like you're nuts!!
Re: L.A. built car....never say never!! [Re: Troy] #1265539
07/12/12 02:27 PM
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Neat ultra original virgin car to learn stuff from.

Note the black paint continued from the bottom of the rear door panel to the corner of the rear seat. Just like I've seen on E-bodies so you don't see the car color through the gap in the rear seat corner. Maybe B-body had the same thing?

Man those are some ultra minty floorboads. Floor seam sealer obviously put down before final paint.

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Re: L.A. built car....never say never!! [Re: autoxcuda] #1265540
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Lucky Dog!!

I found a scrap of a buildsheet in my LA built 71 Duster 340 crammed up the metal where the sail panel board goes. That was closest I will get to a sheet for my car..

Beautiful Dart BTW!!

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